You are unique. Andrey Isaev

exercises, it develops optimism and leads to positive results.

      Learning is a process, but not the proof of success or talent.

      When you praise persistence, strategy, the ability to concentrate, the ability to finish tasks, you train and strengthen these qualities in your child.

      Recommendations

      ● Praise the child not only for achievements but rather for efforts. The child should understand that even if the result was not achieved, nevertheless, effort and perseverance are very important.

      ● Look for the positive. You can find something positive in every action. A goal, for example.

      ● A good praise is valuable and specific. You can tell exactly what you praise the child for, what you liked in his/her behavior.

      ● Be careful when you compare the child to others.

      ● A great way is to compare the child with himself/herself in the past. “Your results are better than a month ago” is a good example. “You finally scored more than Shawn!” is a bad example. Comparing with others develops the wrong motivation. After all, we do not try to exceed someone else’s results, we try to become better ourselves.

      ● Compare in moderation. Learning is not a competition. Sometimes periods without obvious improvements are stages of growth and development.

      Books

      ● Kazdin, A. E., & Rotella, C. (2013). The everyday parenting toolkit: The Kazdin method for easy, step-by-step, lasting change for you and your child. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

      3. Reading together with children

      Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, creativity.

      Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

      Research on developmental psychology suggests that reading good literature with children helps the child become successful in the most important areas:

      ● Interactions of fairy tale characters helps to build relationships in the team, develop communication skills.

      ● Reading and understanding fairy tales develop mental skills: attention, imagination, thinking, etc.

      ● It is useful to read aloud with the child. Reading aloud together brings intimacy, builds trust in the family, shows shared interests, makes reading more theatrical.

      Family rituals, traditions, habits help to develop a calm emotional atmosphere in the family. Regular family activities help the child develop a stable system of family values. It is important for the child to feel the safety and stability of the family world – it helps to be confident and trust the world around. Family reading may be that tradition, that ritual.

      Reading together cultivates a literary taste in children. It awakens interest and helps to navigate in the world of culture.

      Steps

      There are several steps to help your child love reading, to be able to explain what was read, to understand the meaning, to link it to the real world or the world of fairy tales:

      I. Before reading:

      Preparation for reading develops important psychological skills: prognostication, imagination, thinking.